looking toward the future

Thursday 11.2km Yesterday 6.4km. 


People in north-east Japan are tough. The images and stories of devastation in north-east Japan broadcast by Japanese media were switched to the effort of recovery during the past week. I can watch people in smile in the field of corrupted houses finding their own treasure from what's left. I can watch high school baseball players do their best performance to support the disaster affected people in the region. I can watch the kids gathering back to school playing with their friends. After 2 weeks from the disaster, despite of difficult aid efforts, searching for many missing people, nuclear power plant situation, shortage of electricity and goods,  etc., they aren't looking down nor looking back, but they look toward the future. 

My boss invited me among other coworkers to his fishing today. I'm not fisherman, but I enjoyed the beautiful day and fishing dolphin fishes with others on the boat. Looking up the sky with thinly stretched cloud embracing aircraft approaching to the airport, I thought about myself and people in Japan. I felt in peace for the moment.

Various Ways

At the end of the day, I went running for 10.4km. After 8, the weather was nice and perfect for running. Night sky was clear and I could see Orion clearly. 




Someone fights with hunger and cold weather to survive, someone works hard to rescue them, someone sends the needs of people in the region, someone risks their live to fight with the crisis at the nuclear plant, someone works sleepless to plan to move billions of people in the city as normal as possible, and billions of people work as usual as nothing ever happened to keep the economy going, life line of the country, to save the country from the disaster in different ways. 


Everything in the world is connected, and whatever we do somehow have an effect even to the other side of the globe in many ways. I want to do my best on what i'm facing each day.

Day 10

There is a park nearby, with running paths looping through large pine trees. I ran 10.6km today.


The news told that 80 year-old lady and 18 year-old high school student was found and rescued from a collapsed house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, after 9 days since the earthquake. That's wonderful.

  

Super Full Moon

In the morning, I went to running about 9.5 km. As I started to jog around 6:30 am in the residential neighborhood, I suddenly saw a big full moon setting in between downtown buildings.  

The moon was setting into the skyline. It was so impressive that I stopped at the intersection. Later, someone told me that today was a rare ‘super full moon’ day, where the moon was closest to the earth so it appeared bigger than any other time in almost 20 years. 

I was staring at it for couple seconds, and then I went back to running.

月も応援している。頑張れ日本。

Boxes of Supplies

My mother who lives in Tokyo went to the supermarket yesterday, in order to get the things that a hospital in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture desperately needed. She packed them in the boxes and sent them to where a truck was waiting to depart. 

A relative contacted my uncle if he could get some supplies the hospital needed and send them to the delivery center where the truck was arranged. He packed three boxes of supplies and sent them to the delivery center. Then he called my mother if she could do the same. 

The hospital is in the city of Ishinomaki which is located near ocean where tsunami attacked, and the city is still filled with water after a week later. Because water wouldn't recede, relief haven’t been able to reach to the city and the hospital since 3/11. The doctor who works day and night to take care of patients at the hospital asked for help to his friends by email. 

The message spread through friends to friends, and someone arranged 10-ton truck.  Others called for help to gather supplies and to send them to the delivery center before the truck leave. The truck is scheduled to leave on Sunday. My mother asked my sister to do the same. My sister went shopping and sent a box to the delivery center today, hoping the box would arrive in time before the truck would depart. 

The voice of one doctor was carried by his friends and to others who acted on what they could do. Boxes of supplies from many people are being gathered at the delivery center. On Sunday, the 10-ton truck with boxes of supplies will head to the hospital in Ishinomaki which desperately needs the supplies to save lives.